• The Canadian Press

    Host Germany hoping to create another summer party at Euro 2024 after recent tournament flops

    BERLIN (AP) — Another extraordinary summer or another national embarrassment. No one knows quite what to expect from this Germany team heading in the European Championship. The optimists point to the opportunity of staging another monthlong party like the one that gripped the country when it hosted the 2006 World Cup. The pessimists can point to three straight fiascos at major tournaments that has forced Germany fans to readjust their expectations of the men’s soccer team. The latest signs seem

  • The Canadian Press

    Yuka Saso makes headlines in Japan as special edition papers mark her US Open win

    TOKYO (AP) — Commuters at Tokyo's Shimbashi Station were greeted with a special edition of the Yomiuri newspaper on Monday. The big news was the victory of Yuka Saso at the U.S. Open on Sunday, the second time she has won title. Japanese papers still print special editions to mark such moments. She won in 2021 playing under the flag of the Philippines, the land of her birth. This time she won flying the flag of Japan, the birthplace of her father. “Winning in 2021, I represented the Philippines.

  • Yahoo Sports

    5 things to know from the weekend in MLB: With Juan Soto and Aaron Judge crushing at the plate, are the Yankees to be feared again?

    The Yanks head home after a very successful nine-game California trip — they went 7-2 — for a series against, who else, their all-time punching bag: The Minnesota Twins.

  • The Canadian Press

    West Indies opens its T20 World Cup with a nervy win. Then Namibia edges Oman in a Super Over

    PROVIDENCE, Guyana (AP) — West Indies scrapped to a nervy five-wicket win before allrounder David Wieser helped Namibia edge Oman in a Super Over on Sunday as the first two Twenty20 World Cup games in the Caribbean produced low-scoring but tense contests. Namibia's Ruben Trumpelmann set a record in the dramatic Group B game in Barbados, becoming the first man to take wickets with the first two deliveries of a T20 cricket international. The left-arm fast bowler took another wicket in his second o